Allan Pang
allanpang.bsky.social
Allan Pang
@allanpang.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Bristol. Historian. Research: Chinese overseas, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, history education, popular music, decolonisation.
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Our first video of the new series "Hong Kong History Academy" is out!

8 lectures, each comprising 3 sessions.

Lecture 1: Swire and Hong Kong
Prof. Robert Bickers
Session one: Why did the British go to China?

youtu.be/1gl_ecm9Tz0
October 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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🙏 Thank you for everyone who came to the presentation in Bristol yesterday and especially @allanpang.bsky.social for taking these photos.
May 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Thank you to all who attended our book talk about 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨, to our speakers Florence Mok, @adonismyli.bsky.social and @allanpang.bsky.social, and to David for support organising. More info: hkupress.hku.hk/New_Doc_Hist... (use 20CP2025 for 20% off until 21 May)
May 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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📅 💬 Join us in Bristol: @mihatsch.bsky.social will speak at the History Department Research Seminar on May 13, 3:30 pm, LR8, Arts Complex, 21 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB, Clifton Campus. / @uobrishistory.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My review of the fascinating book by Muhammad Suhail! @iseas-singapore.bsky.social
Check out Allan T. F. Pang's book review of 'He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore' by Muhammad Suhail bin Mohamed Yazid (ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
May 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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A few weeks until our 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨!

Hear from co-editor Florence Mok and contributors @adonismyli.bsky.social, @allanpang.bsky.social and me, followed by a roundtable chaired by David Clayton

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Hot off the press! Check out 'A ‘Medieval Menagerie’ in a Progressive Era: Captive Animal Welfare and Minimal British Interventionism in Hong Kong, 1950s–1970s' by Catherine S. Chan: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
A ‘Medieval Menagerie’ in a Progressive Era: Captive Animal Welfare and Minimal British Interventionism in Hong Kong, 1950s–1970s
Using the urban encounter with wild animals as a point of entry, this study sheds light on the feature of minimal interventionism in British colonial governance through the miserable conditions of ...
doi.org
March 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸
Contributors to 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨 Florence Mok @adonismyli.bsky.social @allanpang.bsky.social and myself will discuss re-examining Hong Kong's history using lesser-used sources for our new edited volume
𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿: forms.gle/nYMiKFgMRzmZ...
A New Documentary History of Hong Kong book talk
In its 14 chapters, A New Documentary History of Hong Kong examines a range of themes spanning politics, economics, society and culture through reproduced primary sources, diagrams and images. This ev...
forms.gle
March 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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I have a new review essay on recent Hong Kong books (focusing on ones by Angelina Chin, Florence Mok, Vaudine England, and Ho-fung Hung) out in the @historians.org's American Historical Review, an excerpt from it free online academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
The Many Booms in Hong Kong’s Past—And the First Ever Hong Kong History Boom
Unsettling Exiles is the second book—and second impressive book at that—by Angelina Chin. I am used to describing her as an up-and-coming specialist to wat
academic.oup.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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74 years ago, in March 1951, ‘Rose, Rose I Love You’ (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你), sung by Yao Lee (姚莉, pictured) became the first Chinese record to become a hit in Britain and America. (1/8)
March 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Our 14-chapter 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘒 explores themes in colonial Hong Kong history including politics, economics and society through primary sources and images hkupress.hku.hk/New_Doc_Hist...

Contributors on Bluesky
@adonismyli.bsky.social
@allanpang.bsky.social
@viviankonghk.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM